White Privilege

My Lesson From College: Hard Work and Privilege Aren't Mutually Exclusive

Josh A. Goodman | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Graduation, One Percent, Fast Food Nation, Commencement, College, Inequality, White Privilege, College News
Josh A. Goodman

I feel a responsibility to use my privilege to address privilege. This comes through my awareness of privilege and prejudices, and my efforts to critically address my own prejudices and call others out on theirs, too.

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On Trayvon Martin and Building Transracial Solidarity

Victoria Coats | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Activism, White Privilege, Solidarity, Trayvon Martin, Racism, Anti-Racism, Racial Profiling, Postbourgie, Black Voices News
Victoria Coats

In the wake of the murder of Trayvon Martin, some people have been reminded that anti-black racist violence is, in fact, a regular problem in the Unit...

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Why the Trayvon Martin Circus Could Derail Obama's Re-election

James Marshall Crotty | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Al Sharpton, Latino Vote, George Zimmerman, Black Panthers, Hispanic, Sanford, Barack Obama, Spike Lee, Hoodie, Gop, President Obama, Trayvon Martin, Presumption of Innocence, White Privilege, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Jesse Jackson, Swing States, Vigilante Justice, Reverend Al Sharpton, Populism, Obama, New Black Panthers, Obama Administration, Race Relations, Florida Politics, Election 2008, Obama Campaign, Election 2012, Politics News
James Marshall Crotty

I feel extremely bad and incredibly worried for Barack Obama. I like the president and most of his policies. However, the Trayvon Martin circus has grown so big and unruly, it threatens to derail the president's much-deserved second term.

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Trayvon Martin Should Open Our Eyes: White Privilege and Racial Profiling

Waymon Hudson | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: George Zimmerman, Racial Prejudice, White Privilege, Trayvon Martin, Sanford, Race, Trayvon Martin Shooting, Racial Profiling, Politics News
Waymon Hudson

You see, I have a black son. And yet -- I still don't know what it's like to be a person of color in America. It's never easy to talk about the ugly side of our society. Shining an uncomfortable light on things like racism make us see the faults in ourselves.

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When First and Third World Meet

Daniel Weeks | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: South Africa, Poverty, White Privilege, White, Black, Race, Privilege, Inequality, Interracial Love, Impact News
Daniel Weeks

I may have worked hard when I was young, but the opportunities to learn and work that defined my growing up are hardly the norm in this country, where half the children are born into degrading poverty. The contrasts go on and on.

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Educational Inequity Is No Accident

Steve Nelson | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: No Child Left Behind, Race-to-Nowhere, Race to the Top, White Privilege, Education Equity, Public Education, Charter School, Public Education Reform, Public Education Reform Ny, Education Reform, Income Inequality, Education Reform Ny, Education News
Steve Nelson

What's good for the goose is evidently not so good for the gander. In America's current educational environment, the disparity of experience is bad and getting worse.

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Would Jesus Belong To A Country Club?

Andy Watts | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Prosecutorial Discretion, Jesus, White Privilege, Michelle Alexander, Judiciary, Racism, Justice, Mark 10, Committee on Judicial Conduct and Disability of the Judicial Conference of the United States, Race Relations, Religion News
Andy Watts

My point is this: white privilege is a system of social advantage that connects the courts to the fairways and the boardrooms to club dining rooms.

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GOP Nostalgia Is A Symptom Of Privilege

Christian Piatt | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Social Justice, Polygamy, Lgbt, Melissa Harris-Perry, Tradition, Christian, Politics, Video, Family Values, Colbert Report, White Privilege, Slavery, Republican, Christian Piatt, Gop, Christianity, Nostalgia, Nathan Hoskins, Sister Citizen, Race Relations, Religion News
Christian Piatt

The fact is that, unless you're a white, Christian, straight male, there's little to look back to and say "yeah, I was better off back then."

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Up Is Down and Down Is up -- Alice in America's Wonderland

Steve Nelson | Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Immigration Reform, Reverse Racism, Arizona Ethnic Studies, Tucson Unified School District, President Barack Obama, Affirmative Action, White Privilege, Mitt Romney, Class Envy, Racism, Immigration, Capitalism, Newt Gingrich, Class Warfare, Separation of Church and State, Free Markets, Education News
Steve Nelson

The recent decision to axe an ethnic studies program in Tucson is symptomatic of a bewildering turn of events in our country.

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Education "Reform" -- Garbage In, Garbage Out

Steve Nelson | Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: Pearson Education, Education, Racism, Meritocracy, Kaplan University, Education Reform, White Privilege, McGraw Hill, Education News
Steve Nelson

The problems with education in America will be addressed only when we recognize that it's all about race, class and inequity.

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If I Were a Middle Aged White Man

Louis Peitzman | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Urban Schools, Inner City Schools, Gene Marks, White Privilege, Inner City Kids, If I Were a Poor Black Kid, Gene Marks Forbes, Culture News
Louis Peitzman

If I were a middle aged white man, I wouldn't write articles called "If I Were a Poor Black Kid" for Forbes. With a title like that, it wouldn't matter what points I was making.

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The Privilege That Dares Not Speak Its Name?

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Male Privilege, Workplace, White Privilege, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Hadley Freeman, Maternal Wall, Nafissatou Diallo, Peggy McIntosh, Equal Pay Day, Career & Money, Women News
Barbara & Shannon Kelley

When the sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn was dismissed on Tuesday, it occurred to us that what we had in front of us was a good metaphor for one of the tawdry underbellies of American life.

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The American Dream, In Black and White

Steve Nelson | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Education, Black Voices, Poverty, White Privilege, Chicago, Racism, Race, Post Racial America, Politics News
Steve Nelson

Obscured by incessant chatter about the credit rating and national debt is the sad reality of poverty and hunger in America. At the root of these issues is the ugly legacy of racism and the failure to recognize white privilege.

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Why America Slept

Reverend Billy | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Empire, Apocalypse, Save the World, Natural Disasters, Entertainment, Bombs, Militarism, Media, Stream of Conscious, Existential, Culture, Mass Extinctions, Privatizing, Consumerism, Tsunami, Reverend Billy Talen, Humanism, Suburbia, Revolution, Climate Change, White Privilege, Gadget, Ecological Disaster, Technology, Epitaph, Disaster Capitalism, American Dream, Impact News
Reverend Billy

America was sleeping deeply, in a dream whose creators were hiding inside skyscrapers with smoked glass.

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White People Confronting Racism

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Justice, Traces of the Trade, Slave Trade, Anti-Racism Conference, Pbs, Slavery, White Privilege, Coming to the Table, Racism, Anti-Racist Activism, Anti-Racism, Whiteness, Race, White Privielge Conference, Media News
Abby L. Ferber

Two weeks ago I participated in the eleventh annual White Privilege Conference, where I had the chance to talk with Holly Fulton, who was involved in the documentary film Traces of the Trade.

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All Roads Lead to White Privilege

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Racism, Tea Party, White Privilege, Politics News
David Sirota

White privilege in America today is so omniscient, so assumed, so embedded in everything, that it is even forwarded by some liberal voices as the answer to the very problems it creates.

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CNN's Gay In America: Stereotypes Abound & Bigger Picture Ignored

Bil Browning | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gay Stereotypes, Cnn, Soledad O'Brien, Child Surrogacy, White Privilege, Gary & Tony Have a Baby, Surrogate Parents, Gay in America, Gay Parents, Media News
Bil Browning

I previewed CNN's first episode of their new Gay in America series: Gary & Tony Have A Baby. the documentary goes so far beyond the usual mass media dreck that GLAAD should issue an action alert about it for perpetuating gay stereotypes.

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Missouri Radio Station Gives New Meaning to the Phrase "It's Miller Time!"

Amber Holley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Confederacy, Law, Commercials, White-Supremicists, Radio, White Privilege, Miller Beer, Confederate Flag, Miller Light, Media News
Amber Holley

If a radio station blocks commercials with racially biased and anti-Semitic claims from a write-in Senate candidate from Missouri, it risks having its license revoked by the FCC.

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Murdoch and Fox Portray Black Men as Terrorists on 24

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Post Monkey Cartoon, Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh, Black President, Revenge Fantasy, Palin and Secession, Chimp, Liberal, Conservative, Sarah Palin, War Crimes, Sean Hannity, Ron Robinson, Jefferson Davis, Rupert Murdoch, Alaska Secessionist Party, Abc, Disney, 24, Fox, Fantasy, Phillip Goff, White Spiritual Supremacy, White Liberal, White Supremacy, Race, Plausible Deniability, Racism, Gop, Implicit Bias, Stereotype, Fantasy Bond, Frantz Fanon, Racial Categorization, Ashley Todd, Ny Post Chimp Cartoon, Eric Holder, Boycott, Media News, World News, News of the Day, Race Consciousness, Top News, Angry Black Man, Socio-Spiritual Liberation and Justice, Cultural Consciousness, Fundamentalist, Landmark Forum, Racist, Landmark, White Fantasy Bond, Twenty-Foured, White Privilege, White Entitlement, Guidance Church, Agape International Spiritual Center, Huffington Post, Agape, Self Empowerment, Black Tax, Self Help, Reparations, Latest Headlines, White Fantasy Bond With Obama, Whiteness, Rev. Michael Beckwith, Barack Obama, Rev. Nirvana Gayle, Evolution of Consciousness, Media Analysis, Media Matters, Lynching, Fox News, Lf, Implicit Social Cogntion, Implicit Race Bias, Implicit Association, Emotional Freedom, Happy Victimizer, Santa Barbara, Linkedin, Facebook, Scapegoat, Glendon Association, Belrusconi, Dittoheads, World News
Ronald B. Robinson

The first two Presidents on 24 were Black men. The first was assassinated and the second was responsible for allowing nuclear bombs into the country, causing mass destruction.

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White People "Passing": John Mayer, Racism and The Arrogance Of Whiteness

Molly Secours | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Michael Richards, Hood Pass, John Mayer, 12 Steps, Don Imus, White Privilege, Racism, White Supremacy, Rush Limbaugh, Black History Month, Healthy Living News
Molly Secours

At what point will we accept that without an intentional, determined commitment to disrupt our own internalized racism and the lingering effects of white supremacy, we will continue to replicate and reinforce the demonization and diminishment of non-whites.

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The Fort Hood Shooting and the White Privilege of Disassociation

Paul Brandeis Raushenbush | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Von Brunn, Muslims, South Asia, Fort Hood, Timothy McVeigh, Bernie Madoff, White Privilege, Politics News
Paul Brandeis Raushenbush

The Fort Hood shootings no more reflect on the whole of Islam or South Asians than Timothy McVeigh or James Von Brunn reflect on white, Christian males.

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Words of Advice for White Would-Be Writers on Race

Mike Barber | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Talking About Race, Lisa Solod Warren, Race, White Privilege, Kkk, Healthy Living News
Mike Barber

No serious person is ever going to say it's racist to talk about race. That's nonsense.

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The Uninsured Has a Black Face -- White Ambivalence Is Obama's Struggle

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hate Mongers, President Obama, News, African American President, Hateful Acts, White Ambivalence, Obama, White Privilege, Hate Crimes, Racists, Hate Groups, Rosa Parks, John Dovidio, Liberal Racism, Great White Hope, African Americans, Post Racial Society, Politics, Right Wing, Blacks, Barack Obama, Reparations, Breaking News, Yale, Racism, Race, Healthcare Reform, Functional Racism, Whites, Prof. Dovidio, Health Care, Dr. John Dovidio, Hate, Dovidio, Politics News
Yvonne R. Davis

Yale professor, John Dovidio, does not feel the ongoing protests, name calling and Hitler labels by white protesters are hate, but a fight by whites struggling to defend and maintain their position and status.

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Whether Gates or Health Care, Race Matters

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Town Hall Debate, Gates, President Obama, Obama, The Nation, Race, Institutionalized Racism, Obama Town Hall Meetings, Officer Crowley, Town Hall, White Privilege, Racism, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Henry Louis Gates Arrested, African-Americans, Privilege, Health Care, African Americans, Whites, Leonard Zeskind, Pat Buchanan, Barack Obama, Driving While Black, White Nationalism, Lynching, People of Color, Sarah Palin, Sonia Sotomayor, Health Care Reform, Town Halls, Erik Ward, Henry Louis Gates, Racial Inequality, Town Hall Meetings, Eric Alterman, Healthcare, Class, Politics News
Abby L. Ferber

Discussions of race are not merely a distraction from more important matters; they are essential to understanding political mobilization around many of the significant policy issues facing us today.

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Can White Men Shed Their Prejudices Better Than Others?

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sodomy, Supreme Court, Homosexual, White Privilege, Hearings, Antonin Scalia, Sonia Sotomayor, Jeff Sessions, Lewis Powell, Senate Confirmation, Prejudice, Race, Politics News
Nathaniel Frank

The implication of Sessions' inquisition was that, as a white male with no distinguishing "heritage" to speak of, he and his ilk can make judgments totally free of feelings, belief, or experience.

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